Acute hemodynamic improvement by thermal vasodilation in congestive heart failure

Circulation

Volumn 91, Issue 10, 1995, Pages 2582-2590

  Tei, Chuwa ^a,c   Horikiri, Yutaka ^a   Park, Jong Chun ^a   Jeong, Jin Won ^a   Chang, Kyoung Sig ^a   Toyama, Yoshihumi ^b   Tanaka, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nanpuh Hospital   (Japan)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

heart failure; vasodilation; warm water bath

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITORING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOR ULTRASOUND FLOWMETRY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART HEMODYNAMICS; HEART LEFT VENTRICLE OVERLOAD; HEART RATE; HEART RIGHT ATRIUM PRESSURE; HUMAN; LUNG CAPILLARY PRESSURE; MALE; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT; VASCULAR RESISTANCE; VASODILATATION;

EID: 0029046384     PISSN: 00097322     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1161/01.CIR.91.10.2582     Document Type: Article

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